MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiliconCore Technology, a leading Silicon Valley based LED display
provider, today announced that Dr. Heng Liu has joined the company as
Chief Strategy Officer. Dr. Liu is a well known industry entrepreneur
technologist who cofounded Bridgelux and AXT’s GaN blue LED business,
where he held key positions as CEO and CTO.

Dr. Liu became well known in the LED industry with his development of
the breakthrough high throughput GaN MOCVD reactor technology in 1994.
Dr. Liu continued his research work at one of the world’s top LED
research groups, Hewlett-Packard’s Optoelectronics Division, where he
pioneered Hewlett-Packard’s GaN blue LED development, creating several
generations of products that led to the foundation of what later became
Lumileds. Dr. Liu cofounded Bridgelux Inc. in 2002, a company which
pioneered the early development of high power LED devices and is now a
leading provider of high power LED array products for the Solid State
Lighting industry. Besides his technical achievements, Dr. Liu has also
been instrumental in venture funding activity with high profile
investors, raising close to $100M.

“We are very pleased to have Dr. Liu join our elite executive team,”
commented Eric Li, President and CEO of SiliconCore Technology. “It is a
testament to our revolutionary Common Cathode LED technology that has
established the company as the worldwide leader in large format fine
pitch LED displays, and Dr. Liu’s technology background brings new
inspiration to SiliconCore and the broader LED display industry.”

Dr. Liu stated, “I am very excited to join SiliconCore and be part of
the exploding high definition LED display business. The company’s Common
Cathode technology differentiates SiliconCore’s products from other
architectures by offering the best trade-off between high resolution,
low power and heat dissipation, as well as long lifetime and
reliability. SiliconCore’s strength in both IC design and LED driver
architecture pave the way to solving many issues facing LED related
applications, including smart lighting. The company is very well
positioned to enter the next generation information era.”